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A journey into the mind
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 21/10/2021
» Internationally recognised Thai artist Kantapon "Gongkan" Metheekul never fails to amaze.
Linked in isolation
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 27/04/2020
» It has been over a month of staying in and working from home in order to save ourselves and the country from being badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Protecting the air we breathe
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 01/04/2020
» When the president of Earth Day Network Kathleen Rogers talks about environmental protection, she speaks with an impassioned plea. She tries to instil in listeners a desire to play an effective role in addressing environmental issues, weighing heavily on the physical and emotional well-being of society.
Karl Lagerfield gets shirty in Bangkok
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 11/12/2019
» The late Karl Lagerfeld once said: "If you ask me what I'd most like to have invented in fashion, I'd say the white shirt. For me, the white shirt is the basis of everything. Everything else comes after."
Motown memories
Life, John Clewley, Published on 22/10/2019
» Songwriters pen the hits but the singers or bands are the big stars, and sometimes the producers are the ones who get the credit. I grew up with the Great American Songbook or "American Standards" at home, played on the piano by my father while we sang the lyrics. These were the songs that featured in Broadway theatre and in Hollywood musicals. What are now known as standards were crafted by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer and Richard Rogers.
Enduring play moves into the #MeToo generation
Life, Jan-David Franke, Published on 05/04/2018
» Last Thursday, women from 12 countries took the audience by storm in a perceptive, inspiring, and hilarious performance of The Vagina Monologues. The diverse members of Bangkok Rising, a volunteer organisation whose main cause is to raise awareness of the need for gender equality and an end to gender-based violence, rendered tangible the reality of womanhood in a context of oppression, abuse, and also self-discovery. In a powerful conclusion, they turned their attention to the appalling state of gender-based violence today, more than 20 years after the play's premiere.
Rhapsody in Bangkok
Life, Published on 29/01/2018
» West End celebrities will join the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra for "The Great American Songbook" at Thailand Cultural Centre's Main Hall, Ratchadaphisek Road, on Wednesday at 8pm.
Skincare with UV sensors
Life, Noko, Published on 16/01/2018
» Beauty at your fingertips has extended to Sun protection with a wearable electronic UV sensor launched by L'Oreal last week, at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas.